Chapter 21

In an instant, it caused a huge sensation around the world.

No one had expected that, before even a day had passed,

a contestant from Dragon Country would have solved two world-class conjectures.

He was only twenty years old.

He had taken less than a day.

And most crucially, most shockingly, he had now begun proving Goldbach's Conjecture.

This was a second-tier mathematical conjecture, and it was well known around the world.

Of these, the Four Color Problem and Fermat's Last Theorem had already been proved.

Old Mr. Chen from Dragon Country had even brought progress on Goldbach's Conjecture to 1+2.

Could the honor of proving Goldbach's Conjecture ultimately fall into the hands of someone from Dragon Country after all?

For a time, mathematicians around the world who had studied Goldbach's Conjecture for years, some for more than a decade, flocked to the livestream.

They did not believe it, nor did they dare believe it. A twenty-year-old greenhorn could not possibly prove Goldbach's Conjecture.

They would find mistakes in Jiang Ye's equations, then post them on Twitter to inform the world at the earliest opportunity.

After the shock came a wave of enormous controversy.

A Sam viewer: "I can't deny his genius in academics, but what's our purpose in watching this show? It's survival, to see what qualities different peoples display against the backdrop of all humanity suddenly disappearing!"

A European viewer: "I strongly recommend that the production team pick us Vikings for the next season. Under these circumstances, only Vikings are the best."

"Baka, we Yamato people are the greatest people in the world!"

"Ah, ssi-bal, you're all beasts. We Great Han people are the greatest."

"Setting everything else aside, if Jiang Ye keeps this up, the show's core will change. This isn't a mathematics competition!"

"Exactly. Even if he solves Goldbach's Conjecture, that only proves he's a genius at studying. But do you judge whether a people are outstanding by how many geniuses they have?"

In the international livestream's control room.

The six directors were also holding an emergency meeting.

They had thought Jiang Ye would stop after solving Zhou's Conjecture.

They had thought he would stop after they startled him awake in front of the computer.

But what happened?

It was as if he had crawled into the tip of an ox horn. He stubbornly refused to do anything else and only knew how to work on math problems.

The crucial thing was, he had enough brainpower to do it, and he had gotten everything right!

Although

they had the buzz,

and they had the controversy,

what about the results?

They had completely failed to achieve the effect and purpose they wanted.

If Jiang Ye failed at the math problems, his performance still counted as good compared with the other five.

If he solved them, well, there was no need for comparison. He would be showered with honors and have everything.

"Fuck, are we just going to watch him keep doing this?" an assistant director could not help swearing. "We should step in, interfere, and guide him toward doing something else."

"That's right. We should set up some scenarios to show how he behaves in them."

"Then, by your logic, we arrange for a female survivor? But it's only the first day, oh my God!"

"If nothing else works, we can replace him. Don't we have a few Dragon Country people still sleeping in reserve?"

The assistant directors all began talking at once. The chief director said nothing, but his tightly furrowed brows showed that he, too, was considering a suitable countermeasure.

Just then, an assistant knocked and entered, placing a document in front of the directors.

"This is a document from the International Mathematical Union. They hope the production team will let Jiang Ye continue," the assistant said, briefly summarizing its main point.

"I see. Leave it here," the chief director replied.

After the assistant left,

the chief director said, "At his current speed, he'll probably finish Goldbach's Conjecture soon too."

"Whether or not he solves Goldbach's Conjecture, if he keeps doing math problems after that, we'll step in."

"After all, he'll have plenty of time to do math problems later, but our show burns through an enormous budget every day. Will those mathematicians pay for these financial losses?"

"They can't afford it, and they won't have anything to say about our decision either!"

[My cold is getting better. I'll work hard to update, and all kinds of support are welcome. I'm preparing to send out the contract today, so don't worry about the story being dropped or anything. Thank you for your encouragement.]

Chapter 21: We Believe That Man Can Create a Miracle (Begging on My Knees for All Kinds of Support)

As Jiang Ye moved seamlessly on to proving Goldbach's Conjecture,

the mathematicians who had previously begun watching the livestream because of the Beal Conjecture also shifted their attention from the Beal Conjecture to the lines of equations he was now writing.

At the same time, even some leading figures in mathematics who were secluded and absorbed in research were alerted.

Meanwhile,

at the University of Montreal in Canada,

Professor Andrew Granville, a renowned top mathematician from Eagle Country, was told by a student that someone had proved the Beal Conjecture, so he took a look at the livestream.

However,

when he saw the young man in the livestream write a title on a sheet of A4 paper: "Any integer greater than two can be expressed as the sum of three prime numbers,"

the next second,

he was astonished.

This... isn't this Euler's statement of Goldbach's Conjecture?